YouTube went down on February 17, 2026, affecting millions of users worldwide. Understand what happened, the c! Swipe to see →
If you tried to watch a video on YouTube on the evening of Monday, February 17, 2026, and were met with a blank screen, it was not your p...
YouTube officially confirmed that the problem was with its recommendation system — the algorithm that decides which videos appear on your...
The outage hit virtually every continent:
To understand the magnitude of this outage, consider the sheer size of YouTube:
YouTube's recommendation system is one of the most complex AI algorithms in the world. It is responsible for 70% of all watch time on the...
As always happens during major platform outages, X/Twitter became the refuge for users. Within minutes, hashtags like #YouTubeDown and #Y...
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